Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical School District

The Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical School District is a single-school district in Danvers, Massachusetts, serving grades 9–12 with 1,830 students at Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical School. Because it is the district's only school, there are no elementary, middle, or alternative schools to compare it with, and district figures for test scores, graduation, and dropout match the school's numbers exactly. That makes this one school's profile the complete picture of the district.

Academically, the school is above the state average in most subjects but has a clear soft spot in math. In the most recent test data, 10th-grade English Language Arts proficiency was 52.43% (45.48% statewide), 10th-grade Science was 42.67% (40.50% statewide), and Biology End of Course was 48.55% (37.68% statewide) — a gap of nearly 11 percentage points above the state, the school's strongest result. Mathematics, however, was 40.12% versus 43.73% statewide, the only subject below the state average in both reported years. Scores slipped across all subjects year over year, including an 11.53-point drop in ELA, though ELA and Science still remained ahead of the state. The district ranks 138 of 351 (61st percentile, 3 stars), and its latest school rank history shows 128 of 353 (64th percentile, 3 stars).

Outcomes after high school look strong: the graduation rate was 99.5% and the dropout rate 0.2% in 2024–2025, with a student-teacher ratio of 12.7. Per-student spending was $20,408 in 2020–2021, the most recent figure available, and the free/reduced-lunch percentage is blank, so socioeconomic context cannot be assessed from this data. Overall, this is a solid, above-median Massachusetts high school with excellent completion rates and above-state results in ELA, Science, and Biology, but math is the area to watch.